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| Author: | sweetfreek [ Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Well I just got back from Chicago... |
Dear victims,<br><br>I, sweetfreek, just got back from a week long trip to Chicago (family business)... and long story short, I'm only just now getting to mention it even though I got back Tuesday evening--I procrastinate horribly.<br><br>Anyway, while I was staying in a hotel (the Hyatt in Schamburg), I got to watch two and half days' worth of <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.tvjapan.net" target="top">TVJapan</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->. Come to find out, there is a large Japanese population or "gathering point" (I'm not sure which) in that area--in fact, the lobby was crawling with Japanese quite regularly. I came <!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:xx-small;">thiiiiis close</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> to having a communications conundrum with a trio of Japanese ladies who were still wearing their <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.jal.com" target="top">JAL</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> nametags around their necks--the commu-undrum was (or would have been) about whether they wanted to go to the 3rd, 4th, or 5th floor.<br><br>In any case, the Hyatt considered Japanese businessmen/businesswomen (office ladies?)/tourists/etc. to be a large enough costumer base to purchase a TVJapan subscription for all of the rooms, and this gave me and my parents a very welcome dose of Japanese television programming which we all found very addictive! What did they run, you ask? Simple: hour after hour after hour of <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.nhk.or.jp" target="top">NHK</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> programming. Although they did have the half-hour English Edition of NHK News, which is available on Newsworld International (NWI is on DirecTV 366--I hope Al Gore doesn't get his claws on that station), most of it was NHK "Nyuusu" with no English subtitles. It was a very interesting experience watch a footage clip of G.W. giving a short speech in English while seeing Japanese subtitles at the bottom of the screen.<br><br>They also had lots of other things in their daily line-up besides "nyuusu", for instance there was a "samurai soap opera" (I think that's what it was, but it was very interesting all the same) which on one or two occasions actually had English subtitles! Yes, they even had an anime: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.anipike.com/index.php?sid=799417677&t=sub_pages&cat=911" target="top">Nintama Rantarou</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, which was very, very strange, but very funny even though I could only figure out about 15% of it. I also got to see some "children's shows", which were a lot like most of the american ones only more Japanese, and therefore an improvement. In between things, a number of music videos popped up. One looked like a Hamtaro video, another was "Ra ra ra ra ra-Bamba!", and later still was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by The Biratosu (The Beatles). Comedy and variety shows all littered the later hours, one of which had a strange little man doing an impression of Mr. Bean, and plenty of other delights.<br><br>Eventually, between Japanese TV without subtitles (mostly), a Toy Soldier/Miniature Figure convention on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Hyatt (which my parents were vendors in, hence the reason we were staying there), a gas tank full of water, an enormous amount of anime I taped off of the Cartoon Network while I was out (and hope to have sorted out tommorow), a TV/VCR combo that ate a Buster Keaton tape (Wednesday, after I got home), and a slightly hectic mess with some of my college classes; I have at last managed to regain some of my sanity.<br><br>Also, on the way home, we stopped in Atlanta of all places (don't ask how or why) and shopped around in China-Japan-Korea-Vietnam-Phillipines-Mexico-Malay-town (I seem to have a vague recollection of a malaysian shop in that area, but don't hold me to that). A few miles down the road and past a hidden Exit, was a nice little Japanese books store called Japan Books (<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.atlanta.us.emb-japan.go.jp/Books.htm" target="top">click here for directions</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->) where my mother bought a set of chopsticks and nice little cookbook on soy and tofu recipes, and I, a very nice dictionary which was basically like any dictionary in Japan but with English definitions (very nice)! They also had several shelfs of used manga at some mighty cheap prices--I didn't bother to buy any of them, though, since I didn't particularly want to read the few that I had recognized.<br><br>Well, that was my big adventure.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Run for your lives...<br>the peace keepers are coming!<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i> |
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